ACM ICPC South Pacific Central Division Contest 2015 • Saturday August 22, 2015
Introduction
Each year in the middle of second semester the departments and schools across the South Pacific Region take part in the South Pacific Division Contests for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The ACM ICPC is sponsored by IBM and involves a field of over 25,000 students competing from 2,200 universities in 85 countries on 6 continents. The very best teams from the division contest are selected to attend the regional contest in Sydney, and then the best 2 teams in the South Pacific region will be sent to the World Finals!!
The Brisbane Site is hosted by the Science and Engineering Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology.
We are part of the South Pacific Region. Their website has a lot of useful information:
For details of entering a team please see the registation section below or contact Dr Douglas Stebila (3138 9566 or stebila@qut.edu.au).
Location
The Brisbane site will be hosted at the Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point campus, S Block, level 5, rooms 518 and 519 (Google Maps link).
Parking at QUT
There is a short term Pay and Display car park under the South East Freeway and a Pay on Exit car park under the new Science and Engineering Centre. Access is via Gardens Point Road, which is entered from Alice St just before the on ramp for the South East freeway (M1). The Pay and Display car park has a maximum of 4 hours which can be paid for at ticket machines and this will cost $10.00. The ticket machines DO NOT accept notes or 5c coins. Street parking is available around the city but is likely to be full.
A better option may be to park at Southbank or at the Convention Centre at South Brisbane and to come across the Goodwill Bridge into QUT.
Public transport may be an even better alternative.
Timetable
- 9:30 — Arrival at QUT and registration; please come to S Block level 5.
- 10:00 — Introduction and contest instructions.
- 10:30 — Short practice session, with very easy problems.
- 11:15 — Pizza lunch. Sponsored by Oracle Labs, Australia, which aims to improve the quality of Oracle software and the productivity of Oracle's developers. Link: http://labs.oracle.com/locations/australia
- 12:00 — Contest starts.
- 17:00 — Contest ends.
- 17:30 — Presentations to teams.
Contest Environment
The Brisbane site will be offering the standard languages made available for the World Finals: C, C++, Java, and Python.
Each team will be allocated one computer to use. The computing laboratory runs the Windows operating system and the following compilers will be in use:
- C (gcc with stdc11 version 4.7.3) – Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- C++ (gcc with stdc++11 version 4.7.3) – Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- Java – JDK 1.7.0_51
- Python – 2.7.3 or 3.2.3
Note that C# is included as an unofficial language -- teams can participate in the divisional contest in C#, but any team with a submission in C# will not be eligible to advance to the regional or world finals.
- C# (Mono 4.0.0) – Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
The following IDEs and editors will be avaiable:
- Eclipse – Java
- Microsoft Visual Studio.NET – C++, C#, C
Network access will be restricted to only the contest server.
Registration
Teams must register in the ACM registration system, and must also contact their university's coach. For instructions on registering in the ACM registration system, please see the region registration page. Registration closes August 19th.
Coaches:
- Griffith: Dr Andrew Rock (email: a.rock@griffith.edu.au)
- QUT: Dr Douglas Stebila (email: stebila@qut.edu.au)
- UQ: Dr Larissa Meinicke (email: l.meinicke@uq.edu.au)
Contact
The Brisbane site director is Dr Douglas Stebila (email: stebila@qut.edu.au).